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The Family Imprint is an intimate story of my family, as my parents underwent parallel treatments for stage-four cancer. The story is about life and love more than cancer and death. In a sense, it reads and feels like a scrapbook–and is filled with decades of saved loved letters, keepsakes and other clues about our […]
In the early days of this website Sam Croxford Sadler was a regular writer, admin and helper. A qualified holistic therapist, Sam wrote regular articles for the website and was instrumental in the development of our monthly magazine. We, Sam and I were the first support service to offer a online magazine for the […]
Talking To Children About Traumatic Events. With today’s social media and ability to report live news as it happens to our TV screens, Mobiles and Pcs it can be extremely difficult to prevent children from being exposed to scenes that can be traumatic ,disturbing and scary. So what can we say to our children to […]
Rose joins Alex in our studio. Roses husband died when her daughter was just a few weeks old. Rose talks about how she has enabled her daughter to know the father she can’t remember.
Our vision is for all families to have the support they need to rebuild their lives, when a child grieves or when a child dies. Our mission is to ensure the accessibility of high quality child bereavement support and information to all families and professionals by increasing our reach and plugging the gaps that exist […]
When A Parent Dies Living with bereavement by Alex James Most of us hope that we will live a long and healthy life, ideally coming to an end when we are too old to care and hopefully gently in our sleep. We accept, because we have to, that with age our bodies will deteriorate […]
About Widower After AFE I was widowed in March 2013 at the age of 40. My wife was 39. I had taken her to hospital on a Monday morning at around 10am. Our second son was born just after 7pm that evening. Within an hour of his birth my wife was rushed to theatre and […]
WAY Widowed and Young – helping young widows & widowers cope with life after death Georgia Elms’ life was turned upside down when her husband Jon died suddenly from meningitis at the age of just 38. “Jon went to bed feeling unwell, and woke in the middle of the night a lot worse, so […]
by Carl Gorham ‘She is dead. She was here just now and she was alive. How can she suddenly be dead? People in history are dead. Old people are dead. Grandparents are dead. Other people are dead. Not people like me. Not this person. The person […]
With focus on death of a partner or spouse I think it’s important to add that we are all different and we all have our own thoughts and feelings that are unique to us. Some people find it easy to talk and share feelings whilst for others it just isn’t something they feel able to […]